It is pronounced (s oo s) with a line over the oo part, rhymes with noose or juice or Zeus.

And once you learn VI's search-and-replace syntax, You will find that changing basic calls over to STL ia quite straightforward.

Or you cound choose to use a GUI editor, like abiword in text mode or somehting, which gives you your ctrl-c and ctrl-v, so you can gradual step down from your windows addiction. Like the patch.

And if you really need a windows fix,. they make a BSOD screensaver for Linux. :)

10-29-2002

Davros

So I don't get to say 'Siouxsie Linux'? :(

Oh no, not VI!

11-02-2002

zdude

I think that the main problem with Linux is that its hard to find it preinstalled. One of the most annoying things to do for me is to install a new OS, even upgrading my friends computer from 98 to XP was a pain in the butt. Another friend has been daring and installed it on his PC. He got it installed, but being a moron he 'accidentally' unpartitioned his HD and lost everything. I've seen a comp with only Linux since one of the programming teams at my school won one in a competition and it works great.

11-02-2002

damonbrinkley

You can blame Microsoft for there not being any pre-installed Linux boxes. Dell offered Linux as a pre-installed OS about a year ago and I believe Microsoft threatened to raise the prices for their OEM versions of Windows.

11-03-2002

hostensteffa

haha mandrake 9.0 may be easier but obviously many of you have not installed much add on's to it. A lot of them are a booger, and w/out knowing about linux makes it a pain cough cough .bin files took me forever. A lot of files cough cough apache, you still have to use the shell. i love it though

11-04-2002

SilentStrike

Is installing the nvidia drivers on an SMP machine that much harder than installing them on a single processor system? I've gotten my 13 year old non-techy brother to install nvidia drivers on a single processor Mandrake 8.2 system (whilst I talked him through it on the phone). It's the same installation of Mandrake that he performed himself (again, while I was on the phone).